Valve has always been pretty awful at granular privacy. For the longest time, no settings between “hide literally everything” and “broadcast to everyone I know every time I purchase or play anything.”
Still no setting between those two options, but at least it’s on a game-by-game basis now.
Also the fact that on the steam deck there is no choice to add a pin before purchases is mind boggling to me. Hand it to a kid and they could run up serious bills.
As a matter of principle, I don’t save my credit card number anywhere. It’s a little more tedious when I make a purchase, but I’ve got my number memorized anyway, so it’s not a big deal, and it’s definitely more secure in that respect.
The process being tedious helps you think before purchasing too, so it’s definitely a good thing in more ways than one.
I leave my credit card stored with some places, but I specifically don’t leave it on steam just to add a speed bump for me to avoid buying a game unless I really want it. I tend to add games to my wish list, then sort of impulse buy if they go on sale for really cheap, or remove them later if I’ve decided I’ll never get around to playing them.
I’m not too worried about security, worst case I can get a new credit card number. But it seems like steam and other online retailers are pretty good about not leaking your credit card number.
the number of times i add a game to my isthereanydeal list and have no idea wtf it is when i get a sale notification.
At least that one has a simple solution: delete your saved card.
Do you not need to put your CCV in on most purchases? I’d say it’s more often than not that it asks
I just put in a purchase and no, it did not ask me to re-enter the CCV.
Not every purchase, same if you use the PayPal option. At least not in my state in USA.
Not every purchase in the UK either.
Seems pretty random when it asks or not
I think that’s store driven. I recall having to input my PIN on my Deck multiple times, but there was at least a few days between each purchase.
I would prefer if it behaved like phone app stores. Have an option to ask for a pin right before completing a purchase.
It took me too long to realize you folks didn’t mean pin as in pin the game to a dash board of something but a personal identification number for pin.
Also in several games my ability to join friends in-game broke if I turned my profile completely private. As soon as I set it to friends only I could join them again.
I don’t care a lot that people know I play Rimworld, Dwarf Fortress and Skyrim.
… please don’t share the mod lists though.
Ah yes, my favorite mod, Rimjob World
the forbidden mod
Someone defended having it in their modlist and I’m just curious why???
Sure it’s a game about war crimes but ugh
“Wow you’ve got a lot of 40 minute sessions on Sims 4, Fallout 4, and Skyrim.”
“Yeah I’m a completionist.”
“Do you play with mods?”
“What? No. Why? What have you heard?”
Friend is now playing Skyrim. *few minutes pass* Friend is now playing Skyrim. *few seconds pass* Friend is now playing Skyrim. *two seconds pass* Friend is now playing Skyrim. *30 minutes later* “Oh looks like they finally got it work-” Friend is now playing Skyrim.
Baldurs gate 3 doesn’t need mods. There’s also no one stopping you when walking into a sex toy shop in cyberpunk after configuring your breasts and penis size (because you can have both), without mods. And boy do they have some nice toys.
I have been playing Cyberpunk all wrong it seems.
Skyrim, I heard from hearsay Sims 4, I watched someone defend Wtf is happening in fallout???
All of the games listed have porn mods. A LOT of porn mods.
To clarify they can all be played perfectly normally without any adult content unless the user installs mods.
Oh no! My wife is going to see that I played Baldur’s Gate 3 and Crusader Kings 3! Two games that end with 3!
Oh come on, we know what you’re trying to say to your wife here…
That they want HL3?
Thats a given, theres no way AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet’s wife wouldnt already know this.
Haha! Noice.
I dunno, I might side-eye my partner a lil bit if it turned out they were really good at CK3’s schemes.
Unfortunately there’s not really anything I’m really good at in CK3, despite like 300 hours of gameplay. Perhaps open warfare, but that has other consequences that I’m not great at dealing with.
Hiding ugly characters and seducing people I’m playing online with
“make sure your pops doesn’t see you spent 400 hours in futa games.” (I don’t know what that means and I’m not gonna Google it while I’m logged in at work.)
Why would you not look it up from this context, it seems to be a generic “don’t let them see” , why would you be so terrified unless you already knew what it was?
My mans denial game is a bit too forthright
For some reason, your comment made me think of a video game idea… Futa ball! Football where all the players are… yea!
If someone actually makes this game, no need to credit me. Game idea is yours to keep my friends
I bet the huddle sections would … have more code and or animations than most football games.
Not sure what my comment has to do with football, but sure…?
I mean, if any of my comments would have inspired Futa Ball, I would have expected it to be this one :
https://lemmy.world/comment/13700568
Islands at the end of something looking like boot : exists
Brazillians : 👀 o fute bal detectãoinho!
EDIT : I got inspired from the way Gremio spell out football :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grêmio_FBPA
“Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense”
Sweet Story Wet-Bottom Pie 18+ Adult Only Content
OK, that has almost enough syllables for me to be interested
https://steamdb.info/app/1382940/charts/#max
There’s a dedicated fan base of one apparently.
Is it just me or does this not exist on Steam anymore? This SteamDB page just redirects me to the Steam homepage when I click on the game’s store page.
Yes, I was curious enough to click for more information. 😒
I’m in the same situation, I can see various other pervert games
Ohno, my twin will see what games I play. Although they already get the friends popup saying what I’m playing when I start playing it.
They also wander into the computer room frequently to ramble at me so see what I’m playing them.
In short, we all play Dwarf Fortress and it’s not a secret.
Dwarf Fortress is my favorite abstinence method. I abstain from leaving the house on the weekends.
We won’t charge for family sharing, but there WILL be a price!
That picture is spot on
While I don’t get why Valve did this, if your Steam Replay is starting arguments it’s time to kick the arguing party from the family share lmao
Oh! This is just the year in review thing, not your steam gameplay recordings. I don’t want my family members to hear me demolishing a burger while I watch my factory grow
This is why I don’t share my steam tag with anyone.
I hate people being able to analyze my habits.
I’m curious whether that new feature, Hidden games, appears in this summary. I think it had some early missteps because it would disappear from some views but appear in others.
I checked mine, and it doesn’t include hidden games on mobile at least
I don’t have any games that would be too uncomfortable to talk about in my library, so this wouldn’t be an issue for me. Sure I might not want to talk in public about the furry dating sim Amorous, but pretty much anything else I’ve played would definitely be fair game. Especially Ardor and talking about collecting teeth to confuse people walking by.
Thankfully all those hours I put into Anomalous Coffee Machine will probably confuse people since the title doesn’t really give away what it is.
It’s porn in case that wasn’t obvious.
It wasn’t. I thought it would be a sort of horror game based on the title. I’m slightly curious about how a game about/named after a coffee machine turns into that but I’m okay not knowing.
Speak for yourself I’m intrigued
